Despite legal obligations of the state and various complaints lodged by the affected people and human rights defenders before the respective administrative and national mechanisms, including the Natio...

BackgroundPhilippines' national agrarian reform program - Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) - took effect in 1988, with an aim to distribute all agricultural lands beyond five hectares to l...

The Brazilian National Congress intends to transfer the administrative process for the demarcation of indigenous lands from the executive branch of the goverment to the legislature, replacing techinic...